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President Xi References China’s Alt-Protein Sector In National Food Security Speech
In a historic first, China’s President Xi Jinping has referenced alternative proteins in a speech during which he underlined his support for domestic food innovation. Speaking at a meeting with agricultural, social welfare and social!-->…
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South Africa’s Mzansi Meat To Debut Africa’s First-Ever Cultivated Meat Beef Burger
Mzansi Meat, the African continent's first cellular agriculture startup, has announced that it has successfully produced a cultivated beef burger after two years of research and development. The burger will make its debut was made at a!-->…
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Mexico’s Micro Meat Launches To Offer Cultivated Meat Manufacturers A New Way To Scale
Micro Meat, Mexico's first cultivated meat startup, Micro Meat, has launched to offer key foundational tech for the growing cellular agriculture industry. The startup, which is based in Monterrey and co-founded by a tissue engineer and a!-->…
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Asian Food & Biotech Giant Joins Forces With Korean Startup To Build Cultivated Meat Cell Line Production
One of Asia’s largest food and biotech companies, CJ CheilJedang, is entering the cultivated meat industry in partnership with KCell Biosciences, a startup focused on cell culture media. The companies will construct a cell culture media!-->…
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New Zealand’s Sunfed Launches New ‘Bull-Free’ Plant-Based Diced Beef
Sunfed has added a new raw beef analogue to its growing portfolio of realistic plant-based meat products. The prime diced beef development is the latest unprocessed offering that the company claims sets the company apart from many other!-->…
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Upside Foods Opens Its Doors for ‘EPIC’ Consumer Tours About The Future Of Meat
California’s Upside Foods, which has pioneered cultivated meat in the U.S, has announced that it is inviting consumers to tour around its Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center (EPIC) in Emeryville as a way to educate the public!-->…
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Vivera Debuts Plant-Based Salmon Fillet That Costs Less Than The Real Thing
JBS-owned Vivera has revealed a new vegan salmon analogue that the company says mimics the flavour, fattiness and flaky texture of real salmon in response to a ‘lack of plant-based fish alternatives’ currently in circulation in the!-->…
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Nestlé Announces New $73 Million Serbian Production Facility For Plant-Based Garden Gourmet Brand
Nestlé has revealed it will be opening a new production plant in Serbia. The $73 million facility is in progress, with the first phase of construction reportedly already complete. The new site will be 18,440 square metres and within easy!-->…
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The Week In Plant-Based: Fuddruckers, Goiko Add Vegan Menu Items, Heura Debuts The Choribuger
Comfort foods ruled the plant-based newsfeed this week with QSR chains and CPG companies alike debuting vegan takes on classic items around the world. Fuddruckers in the US and Goiko in Spain added plant-based items to their menus while!-->…
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Fungi-Based Startups Meati Foods And The Better Meat Co Intensify Legal Dispute
Two fungi-based alternative meat manufacturers are accusing each other of legal transgressions. Colorado-based Meati Foods, founded in 2015, claims that a former employee went to work for California’s The Better Meat Co, founded in 2018,!-->…
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Finless Foods Nets $34 Million Series B Funding for Plant-Based and Cultivated Tuna
Californian alternative seafood startup Finless Foods has closed a $34 million funding round ahead of specialist facilities construction. The round was led by Hanwha Solutions, with Dainichi Group, At One Ventures and Sustainable Ocean!-->…
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IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food
The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them. The leader of the NGO think!-->…
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Unilever Will Publish Product Health Performances Compared to 6 Government Standards In Industry First
In a move that comes after shareholder pressure, multinational food giant Unilever has announced that it is the first major food company to publicly report on the performance of its product portfolio against at least six!-->…
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Goodmylk Acquires PRO2FIT To ‘Make Plant-Based Nutrition Accessible To Everybody’
Indian plant-based dairy startup Goodmylk has acquired domestic nutrition brand PRO2FIT. The two have cited a shared vision of food security and plant-based goodness for all as the foundation for the merger. Making sustainable food choices!-->…
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Impossible Foods Partners With Kroger To Develop New Private Label Meat Substitutes
Kroger has announced a new strategic partnership with Impossible Foods that will see the two companies work together to create a line of proprietary meat substitutes for sale within the retail giant’s numerous locations. Kroger, the!-->…
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Lypid Bags $4 Million In Seed Funding For Vegan Meat Fat Scale-Up Investigation
Californian food tech startup Lypid has scored $4 million in a seed funding raise to scale their vegan fat. Green Generation Fund led the round, with Big Idea Ventures and SOSV’s Indie Bio participating, amongst others. New investment will!-->…
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IPCC Report Leaves No Doubt As To Importance Of Alt Protein In The Fight Against Climate Change
In a newly published statement, the Good Food Institute (GFI) Europe has outlined the role plant-based and cultivated meats have to play in future food security based on inclusion in the just-released IPCC report. The GFI declaration is!-->…
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Here’s What War In Ukraine Means for the Global Food Supply
The Russian invasion in Ukraine is being felt around the world as world leaders, businesses, NGOs, and concerned citizens rush to support the besieged country. Its implications though stretch far beyond just a humanitarian crisis; it's!-->…
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Trolling This Vegan Food Company Just Became Its Favourite Free Marketing Resource
VFC, a UK-based vegan fried chick*n brand has taken marketing to a new level. Instead of creating new campaigns with activism at their core, as they usually do, the company has curated the wording of some of its harshest critics. Using!-->…
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Evo Foods Debuts “World’s First” Heat Stable Vegan Boiled Egg
Mumbai startup Evo Foods has added a new product to its plant-based egg portfolio, a heat-stable plant-based boiled egg that follows on from their mungbean liquid whole egg substitute which was unveiled last year. Similarly, the new!-->…
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European Farmers Are Struggling With Animal Welfare Concerns They Can’t Talk About, Study Suggests
A study published last December has highlighted a growing unease amongst European farmers: increasing moral concerns surrounding the practice of animal agriculture, alongside an inability to voice them for fear of ‘betraying’ the industry.!-->…
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